OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL ...

Microsoft's OLAP product, bundled free in SQL Server, outperformed its more expensive competitors in some categories of a recent user survey done jointly by a longtime OLAP industry analyst and a ...

IBM Corp. on Thursday launched a new version of its OLAP server technology that the company says is built on a new kind of OLAP capability and combines OLAP functions with data mining. IBM calls the ...

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In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion ...

SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the ...

In order to fully understand the benefits of OLAP and the details of its effective implementation, it helps to examine the technology from two perspectives: (1) from that of the users and (2) from ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

When Rony Ross, co-founder of Israeli online analytical processing (OLAP) specialist Panorama Software, approached Microsoft about developing partnership activities in 1996, she came away with a ...